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See also: born on the 12th of See also: February 1637 at See also: Amsterdam, the son of an apothecary and naturalist
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He was destined for the See also: Church; but he preferred the profession of
See also: medicine, taking his See also: doctor's degree at See also: Leiden in 1667
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Having necessarily to See also: interest himself in human anatomy, he.devoted much See also: attention to the preservation and better demonstration of the various structures, and he devised the method of studying the circulatory See also: system by means of injections
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He also spent much See also: time in the study of See also: insects, investigating the subject of their See also: metamorphosis, and in this and other ways laying the beginnings of their natural See also: classification, while his researches on the anatomy of mayflies and bees were also of See also: great importance
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His devotion to science led to his neglect of practice; his See also: father, resenting this, stopped all supplies and thus See also: Swammerdam experienced a See also: period of considerable privation, which had the most unfortunate See also: con-sequences to his See also: health, both bodily and See also: mental
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In 1675 his father died, leaving him an adequate See also: fortune, but the See also: mischief was irreparable, He became a hypochondriac and mystic, joined the followers of Antoinette See also: Bourignon, and died at Amsterdam on the 15th of February 1680
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His Allgemeene 'Verhandeling See also: van bloedeloase diertjens appeared at See also: Utrecht in 1669, and his Biblia naturae, sive Historic insectorum in certas classes redacta was published after his See also: death by H
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Boerhaeve in 1737-1738
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He was also the author of Miraculum naturae, ;ea Uteri muliebris fabrica (Leiden, 1672)
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